[Gllug] NIS setup query

[Jason Clifford]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Thomas Clive Richards wrote:

> And I'm at the point where I can issue "ypcat passwd" on the client, and
> get the correct authentication information from the server. I've added
> the appropriate entries to the /etc/[passwd|shadow|group|gshadow] files,
> and yet when I try and log in on the client I get a "login failed"
> message.

Did you update /etc/nsswitch.conf to use NIS as well as file?

If so do you see the extra account data when you run `getent passwd`?

> Do I need to configure PAM somehow? I've never done this before, so I
> guess I might be missing something rather obvious..

You should not need any separate configuration for PAM.

Jason
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